A world in chaos. Japan threatens to shoot. China says there will be no second shot!

via India Research by Business Insider.

When Chinese and Japanese fighters met for the first time over disputed islands in the East China Sea earlier this month, Japan promptly declared its right to fire tracers at China’s jets.Though met with outrage by China at the time, Japan continues promoting the live firing which Chinese military academics are calling the “first shot.”The Tokyo AP reports Japan believes it’s simply following protocol:“Every country has procedures for how to deal with a violation of its territory that continues after multiple cautionary measures,” Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday when asked if tracer shots would be fired against intruding aircraft that refuse to change course. “We have response measures ready that are consistent with global standards.”If Japan is using the talk of tracer fire to gauge Chinese reaction, the tactic worked.The Chinese Foreign Ministry said Sunday his country is on “high alert” and that Japan and the U.S. are ignoring the fact that “the islands are China’s inherent territory.”Never to be left out, Chinese military academics quoted in Beijing’s state-run media provided far more fiery replies: “Japan’s desire to fire tracer warning shots as a way of frightening the Chinese is nothing but a joke that shows the stupidity, cruelty and failure to understand their own limitations,” Maj. Gen. Peng Guangqian of the Chinese Academy of Military Sciences was quoted saying by the China News Service and other state media.“Firing tracer bullets is a type of provocation; it’s firing the first shot,” he said. “Were Japan to dare to fire tracers, which is to say fire the first shot, then China wouldn’t stint on responding and not allow them to fire the second shot.”

Read it all over at Business Insider, but lets recap.

*Syria is about to implode and with its demise trouble will spread to Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and possibly even to Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
*The French are fighting for the Western World in Mali against a threat to Europe AND the US.
*Afghanistan is quickly turning into the forgotten war yet fighting still rages and we're rapidly approaching a new fighting season.
*India and Pakistan are at knife edge, the latest provocation by Pakistan-the killing and decapitation of an Indian Soldier-remains unresolved.
*Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam and China are all squaring off over an area of ocean.  The war of words and incursions by an expansionist China are on the rise.

All this is going on right now boys and girls.

Add to it a weak US economy.  Spain and other Southern European countries are still in economic hell.  The UK slipped into its 3rd recession.  Economic growth in Germany is slowing.

Yet our administration is attempting to take guns from law abiding gun owners?

Our leadership, military and civilian, are idiots.